Letter V Classical Radio this week

Music for Passover and Easter, including Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s setting of Psalm 42 and Handel’s oratorio “Israel in Egypt.”

April 2
11 a.m.-2 p.m. EDT
1500-1800 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Haydn: Symphony No. 26 in D minor (“Lamentation”)
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
(DG Archiv)

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Emma Kirkby, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood
(Decca)

Mendelssohn: Psalm 42
Eiddwen Harhhy, soprano
La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale Ghent
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris/
Philippe Herreweghe
(Harmonia Mundi France)

Handel: “Israel in Egypt”
Ruth Holton, Elisabeth Friday & Donna Deam, sopranos
Ashley Stafford, Michael Chance, Patrick Collin & Jonathan Peter Kenny, altos
Nicolas Robinson, Philip Salmon, Paul Tindall & Andrew Tusa, tenors
Julian Clarkson & Christopher Purves, basses
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
(Philips)

Penderecki: “Polish Requiem” – Lacrimosa
Jadwiga Gadulanka, soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/
Krzysztof Penderecki
(Chandos)